Green your Office by 8 gadgets

Following listed products which I wish to blog in coming days, lets keep an eye on saving the power and make office and home office greener.

I got this information in 8 Gadgets to Green Your Office

SoyPrint
Now available for office printing, soy-based toners are recyclable, nontoxic and free of petroleum products.

Western Digital Caviar GreenPower Hard Drive
Reduce power use and increase energy efficiency with GreenPower hard drives

LED Lights
These lights use 80 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and 30 percent less than fluorescents. They also last longer and emit very little heat.

Encore Electronics Thin Client
Reduce the power you use while computing by having multiple workers share a PC or server's computing power.

Solio Magnesium Edition Hybrid Charger
This solar- and wall-powered portable charger has a USB input for devices like iPhones, and comes with a set of Universal iGo tips to connect to various phones.

Critical Links EdgeBox
Replace four to six standalone communications devices with this small box that consolidates your phone system, e-mail server, web server, fax, security, VPN, data storage and more.

Dell OptiPlex 960 Desktop Energy Efficient
This PC's energy-saving features let you use 43 percent less power than the previous model.

Occupancy Motion Sensor Llight Switches
With simple-to-install infrared occupancy detectors, you won't have to worry about anyone forgetting to flip the switch.

Gmail's new lab feature : Filter import/export

We usually and effectively used filter option to manage tons of subscribed mailing lists or unwanted spam mails to keep apart from useful mails.

I previously posted new lab feature title tweaks.

Now discussing about new lab feature included in Filter option. i.e now you can export/import the set of filters. This option is available in lab tab where you turn on this feature, and download all set of filters which you are presently using or create new file with set of filters and upload the file.

Through this feature now you can download all set of filters, share filters with the friends, and also temporarily disable some filters while exporting them. If you know xml you can customize the filters.

For more information on xml editing visit user group for Filter import/export.

Resource : New in Labs: Filter import/export

Innovation is intergral part to over come from recession especially for India

The word innovation is now become integral part for sustaining the growth in any technological, social and economical field. How many people were actual thought about the change in their daily work innovatively ?
No one undergone to simplify the type work they are doing. This is not the way people want to work. As a integral part of corporate world we lost our identity in big companies. Their is less opportunity to start a project from the scratch. In India whatever we doing the work, we are just executing the other minds innovation. Self innovation is most satisfactory for any person.
Innovation comes in our life when we feel freedom to think and desire to invent. Inspirational team work and motivation is the basic need to achieve the goal. Whenever we lost or lag behind our goal, but still our innovation must go on by only one thing is by keeping hope.

Today India needs both innovation and technology which are backbone for modern economical development. Innovation in any field is possible by combined effort of industrial and research centers. Innovative development in the fields like digital, media and entertainment, infrastructure development, social life should be carried out by building the platform for small to big companies. Companies should give more importance to development and researching in their respective fields to keep in race.

I think we need strong political and leader ship quality in new government which should boost our national integrity. We have to attract the investors in various sectors basically for urban and rural development.

keep on reading and give the comments for

• You have any points or suggestions in your field or sector for innovative development ?
  
• What India needs to sustain the developmental growth ?

Video On demand Zillion TV

Its great to hear that watching the videos and controlling the type of commercial ad to appear on the screen will be possible in the near future. This service will be provided by ZillionTV which introduce an ad-supported video on demand system.
Allow viewers to choose the type of advertising that are most interesting to them. The commercials fitting the bill are introduced into TV shows and movies that are streamed via broadband onto TV screens.

Futuristic innovations on daily life needs through mobile phone usage

In my blog I always wished to talk about innovations which make our life simple. But I hardly got interest in writing the innovations which actually make our life monotonous and more confusing.
Today I found one interesting article on how innovations would make daily life needs simple and joyful. But these innovations still in discussion stage.
Do you ever thought about buying the products and paying the bills through your sweet heart mobile ?. If you are in depression then it can be detected by the voice tone. All these things possible by the software which would be implemented in mobiles in near future.

These discussions were under gone at MIT’s first-ever emerging technologies conference in Delhi.
More young entrepreneurs are thinking these simple aspects of our daily life needs.

These innovations cannot be delivered in highly acclaimed research centers or in controlled atmosphere. Best innovations are all coming to picture by meeting the people, and understanding how well common urban man using the technology more effective way.

Resource : MIT spotlight on Indian innovation

Motorola's Aura luxurious mobile launched in India and price tag approximately Rs1.11 lacs (USD 2188)

Aura power packed unique handset launched in India . Its unique feature includes :

16 million colors display with 300 dpi resolution which is world's first of a kind. Its display screen created from Grade 1 62-carat sapphire crystal, one of the most scratch-resistant materials on earth. Some interesting feature are meticulously crafted textures and patterns. CrystalTalkTM technology delivers supreme clarity and deep resonanc for conversation. It haves aluminum keypad, mirror polish finish, and 700+ components assembled.

Messaging - MMS, SMS, Email (POP3/IMAP embedded)¹, Open Source
Camera - 2 MP, Fixed Focus
Weight - 141.00 g
Display - 1.55” in diameter, 480 pixel diameter, LCD round
Connectivity - Stereo Bluetooth³ Class 1, Version 2.0 plus EDR and A2DP, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Audio - AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA v10, WMA v9
Video - Capture/Playback, Capture/Playback/Streaming¹, H.263, H.264, MPEG4

35.5m yr old global cooling caused by sharp decline in CO2

A new research has found that prehistoric global cooling that started in Antarctica about 35.5 million years ago, was caused by a sharp drop in the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.

Even after the continent of Antarctica had drifted to near its present location, its climate was subtropical. Then, 35.5 million years ago, ice formed on Antarctica in about 100,000 years, which is an "overnight" shift in geological terms.

"Our studies show that just over thirty-five million years ago, 'poof,' there was an ice sheet where there had been subtropical temperatures before," said Matthew Huber, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University.


Read the full story : 35.5m yr old global cooling caused by sharp decline in CO2

Gmail New lab feature: Title Tweaks

Its little bit hard to look each time for new mails by maximizing the window of Gmail account.
If you want to see unread mails without opening/maximizing the window then their is a new feature in lab tab called Title Tweaks which shows the unread mails like this below one.





Resource : New in Labs: Browser title bar tweaks

Software to translate video games and other softwares into different languages

From North Carolina State University researchers came up with a software tool for easier and faster translating video games and other software into different languages for use in various international markets.

The research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Office. The research will be presented in May at the International Conference on Software Engineering in Vancouver, Canada, and will also be published in the proceedings of the conference.

Through this software tool a major hurdle in translating the thousands of lines of coding time can be saved. Programmers have to be sure they are not replacing code that necessitates how the application/program really works.

But through this software tool discovers those pieces of software code that are designed to appear on-screen and communicate with the user such as menu items, as opposed to those pieces of code that order how the program really operates. When those "on-screen" pieces of code have been identified, the programmers can translate them into the applicable language, like translating the tabs on a toolbar from English into Chinese.

Resource : New tool improves productivity, quality when translating software

MWC 2009: Acer's new SmartPhones M900, F900

Acer M900 comes with 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen HSDPA connectivity for faster web browsing. Windows® Mobile 6.1 Professional, Outlook® Mobile email and Office Mobile. Have GPS, FM Radio, voice recorder and voice-command, expandable memory, and a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash.






Acer F900 have 3.8-inch WVGA touch screen and new easy-to-use touch keyboard.
The F900 comes with an integrated 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with flash, GPS, FM Radio, voice recorder, voice command, and expandable memory.With high-speed 3.75G HSDPA/HSUPA and WiFi connectivity, users will enjoy excellent data connections.

N97 Loaded With Skype Calling Software

Skype application VOIP will be loaded in Nokia's N97 smartphone before shipping. Application allow user send messages , make voice calls. Also user can choose it as a widget through they can view which friend is online.
Application is incorporated into address book of the phone, and its made easy to call through Skype username as to their phone number.
N97 smartphone runs Nokia's S60 software platform. Initially Skype application particularly for N97 and will not be available for other S60 phones.

Resource: Nokia will ship N97 loaded with Skype calling software

Tweak Explorer to retouch your windows explorer

Tweak explorer is a tiny application to enhance or retouch your windows explorer.
Its features are :
Apply an elegant background to your folder.Show background picture to IE 6 toolbar. Show your picture as folder thumbnail. Re size and set the picture quality of thumbnail displayed on explorer.
Tweak is portable, and does not require any frame to run. Its disk size 2.5Mb.





Resource :
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/13/windows-explorer-tweaker/
To download http://www.d-oneproduction.co.cc/tweak-xplorer.html#description

Cellulosic ethanol: Future Fuel compete with Gas

By 2030 in the U.S. Ethanol will replace gasoline by one-third of annual usage. The Joint study was released on Wednesday by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors. Its amazing to see that 75 billion gallons of ethanol produced only from Cellulosic ethanol out of 90 billion gallons of it.

Cellulosic ethanol is a biofuel mainly produced from agricultural and forestry wastage like wood, non-edible parts of plants, grasses etc. It is a environment friendly and renewable energy for transportation fuel.

The difference between Cellulosic ethanol and Conventional ethanol :

Conventional ethanol obtained from edible parts of the food grains, which is usually less productive. Where as cellulosic ethanol can be obtained from non edible parts of food grains like cereal straws and corn stover or from dedicated crops.

Dedicated crops includes sugarcane, cotton woods and switch grass. These crops are raw material for biofuel energy. And all these crops are ability to re-grow with short term life cycle. Advantage is it allows to multiple harvesting without re-planting. These food raw materials are cheap and ample.

Cellulosic ethanol emits less carbon so directly reduces green house effect.

Resource :

Cellulosic Ethanol

View a slide show of Celunol's process.

Will Cellulosic Ethanol Take Off ?

Cellulosic ethanol could compete with gas, study says

Photosynthesis process viewed by taking Laser Snapshots

Now its possible to view and analyze the plants photosynthesis by taking flash on every minute activity of the process. Through this we can know how plant utilizes the sun energy in the process.

Researchers did this great thing by taking the laser snapshots. Shots taken per ten-thousandth of a billionth of a second.
During energy transfer, studied the function of electron.

This study helps to know how energy transfers between the systems. And how we can produce better, efficient solar cells for electronic devices which are major energy consumers.
The energy which plants are utilizing, makes protein to use electrons from the water to produce the sugar from carbon dioxide.

This study helps on wide application like in designing the efficient solar cells, electronic devices.

Resource : Photosynthesis viewed in a flash

How to Track mobile users by using "Google latitude" ?

Its free service from Google, where your are going to share your whereabouts with friends and family.
Are your ready to share ?
Now lets start
You should have the following listed mobile phones :

• Color BlackBerry
• Windows Mobile 5.0+
• Symbian S60 like Nokia smart phones (Coming soon)
  
• With Java-enabled(J2ME) like Sony Ericsson mobile phones
  
• Android-powered devices, like T-Mobile G1
• iPhone and iPod touch (Coming soon)

You have to enter google.com/latitude in your mobile web browser, and download the latest version of Google Maps which provides latitude facility.

If you don't have the compatible phones then through desktop/laptop you can also share whereabouts with your friends network. You can do this through installing latitude gadget in iGoogle.

In my previous post introduced the Google latitude

Software To Track Mobile Users Launched by Google

Now its possible to track mobile users by their family and friends. Google Inc launched the software on Wednesday, through which mobile users can connect to their family and friends and inform them their whereabouts.

It allows users to control their identity and location for their specified family members and friends. And more thing whenever we want can go offline.

On Google Blog they said its possible to control who wants to see and decide the location allow to see.
Through this software people can track their friends whereabouts on Google map, handset and from pc.

This service is similar to the service offered by privately-held Loopt

For downloading and using the Google Latitude check the link http://technovatte.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-track-mobile-users-by-using.html

For more information : http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNewsMolt/idUKTRE5131Z620090204

A search for more effective tuberculosis drugs

Rajesh Gokhale has created a compound in his lab in India that stops tuberculosis in its tracks. In a test tube, the molecule hits four of the bacterium's crucial metabolic pathways at the same time, weakening and ultimately destroying the pathogen.

Read more : http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/india-search-more-effective-tuberculosis-drugs-18397.html

Now students can get the computers at about Rs 500

Its good news for students who are interested to learn and gain more knowledge through computer enabled education. Now might be within a 6 months for just Rs 600 (USD 10) low cost computers available for those who want to learn from home on each subject.
Government initiating this great facility to make available for every family.

Technology for these small devices has been developed by IISC, Bangalore and IIT Madras. "But lot of testing has to be done to ensure that the technology works properly. Once the testing is over, the computers will be made available on commercial basis. The target is to make it available in six months time," Higher Education Secretary, Ministry of HRD, R P Agrawal said reporters in New Delhi on Thursday.

The computer will be a small device which supports expandable memory, Wi Fi and LAN facility. The e-content on every subject will be provided by government for free of cost .

A prototype computer has been designed which is being tested now. "Its cost will be USD 10. If the parents want to gift something to their kids, they can easily purchase this item and gift them," he said.

Students can get the e-content feed and load them in their computers and take advantage of the materials. The government will provide these computers to educational institutions at a subsidised price, Agrawal said.

The government is in the process of consultation with different agencies for production of these computers and are seeking collaboration with them. These computers can run at two WT power. "The ultimate target is to have a Virtual Technological University," Agrawal said.

The low-cost computers are being developed under the central scheme -- National Mission on Education through Information Communication Technology (ICT).

For more information : Govt set to make available computers @ about Rs 500

Are you ready to Shift your PC to Online GDRIVE ?

From past more than two years we heard Google planning to luanch a service through which you can shift your personal computer in to GDrive (Google Drive). Which is now a next big thing in internet world. GDrive acts as a your pc where you can actually access your data just like your pc.
GDrive stores and processes the data in favor to "Cloud Computing", and all these things happening away from thousand miles in remote data centers.
Your every day action now in the future can be accessed through the internet.

The long-rumoured GDrive is expected to be launched this year, according to the technology news website TG Daily, which described it as "the most anticipated Google product so far".

Now most of the net users depending on the web based services and more on free services. Like email, digital photo storage mainly dependent websites like gmail, Flickr and Picasa etc,..Most of the documents in any format can read through online compatible applications.

Their is a fear of data loss from pc or laptop crashes and losing important data. But through this evolution that problem is expected very less.

All these online storing and processing is done regularly in "Cloud" and accesed through any where in the world.

But their is also be a fear giving all of our identity and information to outside world, which most of the people hate to do that.

I felt bad for giving my identity and control to unknown world. Where we introduced to every hour for thousands of unknow new virus threats. Now future of internet world looks wired.

Resource : Google Drive

USB Mouse + SDHC Card Reader

It is a combo gadget which is an optical mouse and SD card reader. With the advanced ergonomic design, suitable for both right hand and left hand users.


Product Specifications:

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• Resolution: 800dpi
• USB 2.0
• Advanced ergonomic design
• Support memory cards: SDHC / SD / MMC / *T-flash / *MicroSD / *MicroSDHC / *MiniSD
• Support 2000/ME/XP/Vista
• Size: 95*55*31mm
• Weight: 80g

*Adapter is required
Price : US$15.00
For product purchase : http://www.gadget4all.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00627&dept_id=&cat_id=011